Gea will be responsible for inspiring and growing Bacula's technical teams, further accelerating the businesses' technical achievements and delivering the world class secure technology for which Bacula has become renowned and awarded. Gea will lead the innovation agenda and technology roadmap for Bacula Systems, bringing deep technical experience with a background in software engineering, infrastructure, and software architecture.

Bacula Systems Chairman, and original founder of both Bacula.org and Bacula Systems, Kern Sibbald, said "Jorge is the right person to oversee Bacula's technical strategy as we move to a new phase of growth. Government agencies and other mission-critical organizations are deploying Bacula to take advantage of its capabilities in highly secure data backup and recovery, and Jorge will ensure its features and qualities will continue to bring them the heightened level of protection needed today and into the future."

CEO Frank Barker commented, "We are very pleased to welcome Jorge to the executive team. Jorge's expertise, talent and ability to bring together global teams will help Bacula to further build on its success in protecting government agencies, MSPs, HPC and ISVs, as we convert their IT departments from legacy platforms to Bacula's highly secure, modern backup and recovery solution. After a busy year of new technology releases from Bacula, more cutting edge backup and recovery developments will be announced soon."

"I am thrilled to be joining Bacula Systems, a company with a long heritage of innovation and security that is stable, profitable and highly innovative in the industry," said Gea. "I look forward to working with our leadership, engineers, developers, customers, and partners as we focus on delivering a solution that provides unified, highly scalable backup and recovery, with ransomware detection for physical, virtual, container and hybrid cloud environments."